Astronomers using the Very Large Array radio telescope have found some of the best evidence to date that small, new galaxies can form from material pulled out of older galaxies.
Astronomers Make a Supernova Movie
Astronomers using an international network of radio telescopes have produced a movie showing details of the expansion of debris from an exploding star.
VLA to Receive Galileo Spacecraft Data from Jupiter
In a technical feat thought impossible when Galileo was launched in 1989, the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array will record the faint radio signal from the probe to help scientists measure the giant planet’s winds.
Black Hole in a Double Star System
As scientists from the NRAO analyze a timelapse of powerful jets of material emerging from a double-star system 10,000 light-years away, new evidence from other research confirms that the source of the jets is a black hole.
VLBA Tracks Ejected Material From Mysterious X-Ray Nova
Images made with the Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope show the mysterious X-ray nova in Scorpius as it ejected blobs of material at tremendous speeds over the period from August 18 to September 22, 1994.
Tremendous Mass Concentration in Strange Galaxy Revealed by VLBA
A dense whirling mass orbiting what almost certainly is a black hole of truly Brobdingnagian proportions has been discovered at the heart of an active galaxy some 21 million light years from Earth.